[Weird Song Titles]

  Trumpet Master said:

Puff the Magic Dragon...

lived by the sea...

He wallowed in the autumn mist

In a land called Honnalee!

 

I learned the song in fourth grade, and its absurdity has stuck with me ever since. Plus, it's funny picking out the innuendos.

[Recordings???]

I have a Festive Overture recording, though it's a little different from the actual stuff. It's about 50 beats faster than normal and the conductor decided to take out some of the end part. It's still a good recording, though.

[Boise State...]

  MartinHorn said:

What's up with this +1 stuff?

Internet forum jargon. When you agree with someone's post, you +# it. For example, extreme agreement would result in +9729347982743 and disagreement would be -1.

[concert season - begin!]

  ClarinetGlissandoInBlue said:

we are set on:

 

Movement for Rosa

Shepard's Hey

 

Blackhorseman Troupe (Sousa) is not set yet, but we have the music

I believe it's entitled The Black Horse Troop. That's a deceptively difficult march. I love it, though. I love most of Sousa's marches.

[Band Slang]

We speak English.

[Boise State...]

  Danpod said:

AMAZING game!!!!!! I pulled for Boise State the whole game. The way the game ended was probably the craziest finishes EVER!

 

One quick fact:

Ian Johnson, the guy who ran the two-point conversion in for Boise State, proposed to his cheerleader girlfriend shortly after scoring. She said yes. I'm certain after a finish like that, she's probably still **** his brains out right now =)

Maybe he'll come up with yet another amazing finish.

[Boise State...]

Greatest. Game. Ever.

[Reagan 06]

Truthfully, this year's show was my favorite Reagan show to date.

[Wii!!!]

  bluebellbrass07 said:

Wii>all

lies

[Wii!!!]

  Xenon said:

This message is brought to you from my Wii!

360>Wii>PS3

[Saucedo vs. Whitacre]

  bluebellbrass07 said:

Oh god no, not even close.

 

It was a beggining band piece.

You played a beginning band piece at a band clinic? Ouch.

 

I was wondering why you said the piece was in 5/4 when the Ives piece is in 4/4. That explains it.

[Saucedo vs. Whitacre]

  bluebellbrass07 said:

I think he also had to explain 5/4, and we played a song called "Country bandstand march" or something like that. It was basically the same thing over and over and over just in different keys, and then just randomly ended on a high b-flat. Smart

Country Band March by Charles Ives? I love that piece.

[what song is stuck in your head right now?]

Josh Groban's new album, Awake.

[Saucedo vs. Whitacre]

  LdTrumpetWailer said:

for some reason I think people under 25 are uncapable

lol INcapable...

[worst xmas anything]

  supermanuel said:

You.

You beat me to it. That was exactly what I was thinking.

[My Drill]

  manuel_pablo said:

We usually have the pit outside the front side line.

That presents a problem since some of your drill marches right through where the pit would be.

[Marcus' show]

Ew, that video looks like someone was using a fisheye lens. All the straight yard lines look like curves.

[My Drill]

Where would the front ensemble be in the 95 Westfield drill?

[Band in College]

  MartinHorn said:

I'm thinking about doing the marching band at UTA.

UTA is the nastiest lookin' school around here. It's in the middle of the freakin' city. UGLY!

[Lets play a game, I post a show and you rate it...]

  Skippy said:

2003 was the best show we ever did.

 

 

2005 was by far the hardest, and the most fun.

I loved the 2003 show. I've been trying to find a video of that thing ever since I saw it at Super Regionals that year.

 

Do you have a vid of it that you can send me, Skippy?

[The best memory of marching season]

  xbabyisme05 said:

what show was that? what school?

It was Hebron's 2003 show "The Other Side."

[Pretty cool]

  ChaoticOrder said:

Recently heard about this clip through email. Check it out, some extraordinary technique going on. Just goes to show you the near-limitless possibilities one can potentially have on an instrument.

 

Raaf Hekkema - Alto Saxophone

I've heard more impressive Paganini stuff played on a saxophone. Although, this recording is pretty awesome. I have a recording of a college student playing Paganini's Perpetual Motion. It's 4 minutes of continuous sixteenth notes that go up into the altissimo range. And oh yea, he doesn't take any breaths.

[The Kids In Your Band Program]

  barisaxy08 said:

fat kids, lazy kids, slow kids, mean kids, ugly kids, sickly kids, boring kids...u gotta give them props, too.

Barisaxy08 just didn't wanna be left out of your list.

 

 

 

 

 

Haha, no offense, man. I just couldn't give up the opportunity.

["LMB"]

What about "Why do you even care?" If Hendrickson has their little inside joke, let 'em have it. Who cares?

[Most Ridiculous Band Uniform/Costume]

I thought Broken Arrow's uniforms are completely BA (get the pun?) Seriously, though, I like them a lot, and they use them extremely effectively.